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Longitudinal Relations between Students' Social Status and Their Roles in Bullying: The Mediating Role of Self-Perceived Social Status
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Pozzoli, Tiziana; Gini, Gianluca – Journal of School Violence, 2021
The study investigated the longitudinal relations between students' roles in bullying (i.e., bullying, defending, and victimization) and social status within the class. Moreover, we tested the hypothesis that students' perception of their own status may mediate these relations. A sample of 432 early adolescents completed peer nominations for…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Student Role, Bullying, Victims
Less Human and Help-Worthy: Sexualization Affects Children's Perceptions of and Intentions toward Bullied Peers
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Pacilli, Maria Giuseppina; Spaccatini, Federica; Barresi, Concetta; Tomasetto, Carlo – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2019
In Western cultures, the sexualization of children has increased over the past decades. In two studies, we investigated the consequences of children's sexualization for their peers' willingness to provide help in a case of bullying. In both studies, children (total N = 396; ages 7 to 11 years) were randomly assigned to view either a sexualized or…
Descriptors: Humanization, Childrens Attitudes, Intention, Bullying
Emotions of Moral Disengagement, Class Norms, and Bullying in Adolescence: A Multilevel Approach
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Menesini, Ersilia; Palladino, Benedetta Emanuela; Nocentini, Annalaura – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2015
Using an individual-by-environment framework, this study evaluated the role of individual- and group-level moral indices and their interaction in predicting student reports of bullying. The sample included 1,009 Italian adolescents (36% girls) from 56 classrooms (mean age = 15.02 years, SD = 0.71). Individual-level predictors included gender and…
Descriptors: Bullying, Foreign Countries, Emotional Response, Adolescents
Bystanders' Reactions to Bullying: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Personal Correlates among Italian and Singaporean Students
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Pozzoli, Tiziana; Ang, Rebecca P.; Gini, Gianluca – Social Development, 2012
This study examined the role of attitudes against bullying and perceived peer pressure for intervention in explaining defending the victim and passive bystanding behavior in bullying. Participants were 1031 school-age children from two culturally diverse settings, namely Italy and Singapore, which are similar on several dimensions (e.g., quality…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Quality of Life, Bullying, Foreign Countries
Islamophobia, Conflict and Citizenship
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Inman, Sally; Mc Cormack, Pip; Walker, Sarah – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2012
This article discusses some preliminary findings of the English part of a European Commission Fundamental Rights and Citizenship funded project "Children's Voices" (2011-2013) concerned with exploring and understanding children and young people's experiences of interethnic conflict and violence in primary and secondary schools. This is a…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Secondary Schools, Conflict, Foreign Countries
Discrepant Story Task (DST): An Instrument Used to Explore Narrative Strategies in Bullying
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Smorti, Andrea.; Ortega-Rivera, J.; Ortega, R. – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2006
The main aim of this contribution is to describe an instrument devised to study some of the cognitive processes that occur when people interpret social events (Discrepant Story Task-DST; Smorti, 2004). In particular, this instrument analyses the narrative processes of interpretation used by an observer when witnessing progressive and…
Descriptors: Bullying, Social Cognition, Adolescents, Cultural Differences